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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room. And if I were to ask the Greek gods for one thing, I just wish there was better instruction or education for people to know what it is that they’re getting into.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out.